Not only must the user exist in the database, they must also
have a directory. Adding user directories yourself is bad.
vpopmail has a directory structure it sticks it, and mucking
with that can cause problems.
So to everyone who tries to do vpopmail's job for it, do it
at your own risk.
Daniel Hardaker wrote:
>
> Ive been studying the code for vpopmail and cant answer my question from
> it...so I hope someone can shed some light on it for me.
>
> When addint a POP user to a domain, whyis it not enough to simply add their
> details into the relevant sql table? Ive tried to add a row into a domain
> table with the password, pw_dir and everythiong else, but when i telnet in
> as the user, or even vuserinfo <user> authorization fails and the user does
> not exist.
>
> What am i missing?
>
> Thanks
>
> PS anyone who has some statistics for how qmail/vpopmail handles large
> volumes of mail, especially with mysql id really like to see them to use in
> a college project im working on, graphs would be great too!
>
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